October. MoMA's large survey exhibition "Abstract Expressionsist New York", includes Joan Mitchell's 1957 painting Ladybug. Read Jed Perl's review of the show here. The exhibition travels to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2011.

Marion Cajori's 1992 film "Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter" is released on DVD from Arthouse Films.

2013

Installation views of "Minnesota", 1980 (top) and archival materials (bottom) at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Poetry Foundation (Chicago) present the “Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings” Symposium on artists and poetry, in concert with exhibition "Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry" which exhibits quadriptych Minnesota (1980), as well as photographs, correspondence, print portfolios, and artists' books Joan Mitchell created in collaboration with poets.

2015

"Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings" is exhibited at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and traveles to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. A large-scale retrospective exhibition of Joan Mitchell's work, it also is the first extensive public presentation of archival material from the Joan Mitchell Foundation's archives.

Mitchell's work is included in two significant group exhibitions: "Abstract Expressionism" at Royal Academy of Arts, London and "Women of Abstract Expressionism" at Denver Art Museum (CO). This exhibition later travels in fall 2017 to Mint Museum (NC) and in winter 2017 to the Palm Springs Art Museum (CA).